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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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Pretty girls make graves
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
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..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
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And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.
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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
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